Rodeo is a competitive sport that arose out of the working practices of cattle herding in Spain, Mexico, and later the United States, Canada, South America, Australia and New Zealand. It was based on the skills required of the working vaqueros and later, cowboys, in what today is the western United States, western Canada, and northern Mexico. Today it is a sporting event that involves horses and other livestock, designed to test the skill and speed of the cowboys and cowgirls. More: en.wikipedia.org.

To the people that do want rodeos banned: the people that own the bulls take great care of them. The bulls get treated like family. Riding a bull is just like riding a horse, so if you want rodeos banned don't get on another horse again!

Bulls and horses have a lot in common. And for your information people don't just rope the bulls around the horns and toss them around.

There is no cruelty at all. We are not like bull fighters in Mexico where they actually kill the bull. Same with horse - we don't ride them and then discard them... We make life time bond till the end. We do it to celebrate old country history. It is a TRADITION.

Besides rodeo stock and horses are taken better care of than most household pets.

Rodeo should not be banned, however, anyone wishing to partake is such events should give up all rights to health care (the 'general public' gripe about cigarette smokers causing such a spike in health care costs - or was that all propaganda? Think of how much it must cost to fix one cowboy who has a mudhole stomped in his chest by some irate bull).

And as far as you people who yak about 'fairness to animals'... this is one sport where the animal has just as much ability to yank the nuts off the human as the human does to the animal... I think as far as "fair" treatment is concerned, bulls and horses and humans give as good as they receive.